//  IParallelEvaluator.java
//
//  Author:
//       Antonio J. Nebro <antonio@lcc.uma.es>
//
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Antonio J. Nebro
//
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//
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// 
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package etmo.util.parallel;

import java.util.List;

import etmo.core.Problem;
import etmo.core.Solution;

/**
 * @author Antonio J. Nebro Interface representing classes for evaluating
 *         solutions in parallel The procedure is: 1- create the parallel
 *         evaluator with startEvaluator() 2- add solutions for being evaluated
 *         with addSolutionforEvaluation() 3- evaluate the solutions with
 *         parallelEvaluation() 4- shutdown the parallel evaluator with
 *         stopEvaluator()
 */

public interface IParallelEvaluator {
	public void startEvaluator(Problem problem);

	public void addSolutionForEvaluation(Solution solution);

	public List<Solution> parallelEvaluation();

	public void stopEvaluator();
}
